# compatible
## English
### Etymology

from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA: /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/, [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

compatible (comparative more compatible, superlative most compatible)
* Capable of easy interaction.
    This printer isn't compatible with my computer.
* Able to get along well.
    My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.
* Consistent; congruous.
    His actions were compatible with his sermons.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

#### Antonyms

* incompatible
* noncompatible

#### Hyponyms

* autocompatible
* backward compatible
* backward-compatible
* backwards compatible
* backwards-compatible
* binary-compatible
* biocompatible
* C++-compatible
* C#-compatible
* COBOL-compatible
* compatibilise
* compatibilism
* compatibilist
* compatibilization
* compatibilize
* compatibleness
* compatibly
* cross-compatible
* cytobiocompatible
* cytocompatible
* Fortran-compatible
* FORTRAN-compatible
* forward compatible
* forwards compatible
* genocompatible
* haemocompatible
* hemocompatible
* histocompatible
* IBM-compatible
* immunocompatible
* intercompatible
* JSF-compatible
* JSP-compatible
* JSX-compatible
* metrically compatible
* metric-compatible
* osteocompatible
* PC-compatible
* self-compatible
* serocompatible
* signature-compatible
* uncompatible
* upward compatible

#### Related terms

* compassion
* compatibility

#### Translations
### Noun

compatible (plural compatibles)
* Something that is compatible with something else.
    a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

#### Further reading

* “compatible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “compatible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Asturian
### Adjective

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)
* compatible (capable of easy interaction)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kum.pəˈtib.blə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kom.pəˈtib.blə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kom.paˈti.ble]

### Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)
* compatible
    Antonym: incompatible

#### Derived terms

* compatibilitat
* incompatible

### Further reading

* “compatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “compatible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “compatible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “compatible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.pa.tibl/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

compatible (plural compatibles)
* compatible
    Antonym: incompatible

#### Derived terms

* compatibilité

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: compatível

### Further reading

* “compatible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* compatíbel

### Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)
* compatible

## Middle French
### Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)
* compatible

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (compatible, supplement)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kompaˈtible/ [kõm.paˈt̪i.β̞le]
* Rhymes: -ible
* Syllabification: com‧pa‧ti‧ble

### Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)
* compatible
    Antonym: incompatible

#### Derived terms

* compatibilidad
* compatibilizar

#### Further reading

* “compatible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10